Sweet Sour Water Spinach Soup with Fish
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1/4 cup fresh or frozen minced lemongrass
- 4 cups water
- 900 gram Asian catfish or Basa, cut into chunks
- 900 gram water spinach, cut into 2-3 inch lengths
- 2 tablespoons fish sauce
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon tamarind powder
- 1 cup chopped mix herbs (rice paddy herb, saw leaves, and sweet basil leaves)
- 3 chopped hot chili pepper
Instructions
- Pre-heat a large soup pot.
- When soup pot is hot, add oil, saute’ garlic till it turns brown but not burn, removed toasted garlic and set it a side.
- Add lemongrass in soup pot with hot oil, stirs well, add water and cook till water bubbling.
- Add fish in to boiling water, cook till fish tender then add water spinach, stirs.
- Seasoning with fish sauce, sugar and tamarind powder, stirs well.
- Top with chopped mix herbs, chili pepper and toasted garlic.
